All Construction business: strategy, risk and regulations articles – Page 21
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Cost of some materials rises more than 60% in a year
Imported plywood and fabricated structural steel among worst hit, says BEIS
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Green light for PRP’s redevelopment of Camberwell housing estate
Number of homes to increase by more than 300
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Opinion
Building your own home is normal in most of Europe – and they don’t even need Kevin McCloud
Can the Bacon Report make self-building less scary? Grand Designs will never be the same, says David Rudlin
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Brick By Brick founder announces departure
Colm Lacey praises ’wide array of exciting young architecture practices’ that have worked with the housing provider
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Opinion
Why not just make all homes accessible?
Julia Park hopes the upcoming Part M changes will recognise the pressing need to adapt for the future
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Features
Living with Beauty promised much but its delivery is falling dangerously short
The government’s planning reforms are inherently contradictory and risk confusing beauty with popularity, writes Ben Derbyshire
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Arb asks architects to help shape new professional development system
Future of CPD ‘cannot be designed in an ivory tower’
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Features
Interview: Nicholas Boys Smith on design, deregulation and the Office for Place
There are few topics more controversial than planning reform and placemaking and few people more passionate about them than the chair of the new Office for Place. He talks to Joey Gardiner
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Hydrogen could play key role in heating buildings, says government
But much research remains to be done, long-awaited strategy admits
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Features
Westminster’s heartbreaking work of staggering folly
The Marble Arch Mound is no laughing matter, writes Will Jennings
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Government to quiz architects about future of the profession
Three-month call for evidence includes questions on whether Arb is fit for purpose
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Opinion
On building safety, professional qualifications should count
The new safety bill aims to mandate competence, but it would make much more sense to mandate qualifications
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Westminster’s deputy leader quits as MVRDV Mound costs spiral
£6m tourist attraction became international laughing stock
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Chipperfield submits revised plans for scaled-back Edinburgh concert hall
Dunard Centre back on after legal challenge from neighbouring shopping centre
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80% of architects report projects delayed by planning logjam
Slow processing of planning applications is delaying or even derailing schemes, Future Trends finds
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Government's EWS1 change has not ended confusion, research shows
Most mortgage lenders and valuers continue to require safety assessments on blocks below 18m despite government announcement
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Crossrail chief admits Bond Street station opening date at risk of slipping – again
Mark Wild has already conceded the line's central section will open with or without the McAslan station
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Councils begin fight-back against high-streets-into-housing planning free-for-all
Authorities line up to make article 4 directions – but secretary of state will have final say
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Opinion
The Coach: How can I get my team to contribute in meetings?
Louise Rodgers on how not to stifle people